Rubber Bullets
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| "Rubber Bullets" | ||||
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| from the album 10cc | ||||
| B-side | "Waterfall" | |||
| Released | June 1973 | |||
| Genre | Art rock, glam rock, rock and roll | |||
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| Label | UK Records | |||
| [[Songwriter|SongwriterTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | Lol Creme Kevin Godley Graham Gouldman | |||
| [[Record producer|ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | 10cc | |||
| 10cc singles chronology | ||||
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"Rubber Bullets" is a song by the English band 10cc from their self-titled debut album. It was written by Lol Creme, Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman.
Recording and impact
The song features a double-speed guitar solo,[1] guitarist Eric Stewart explained:
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That's a double track solo on that. It's, it's very, very high, of course, going through a Marshall stack, then I slowed the tape to half speed – seven and a half [inches per second] – and recorded it, you know, going [plays single picked notes slowly] and when you speed it back up you've got an octave up, but there's a screaming fuzz on the top of it, that's an octave higher than it was recorded. So it's a very unusual sound done in that way, just an experiment. Because 10cc, we love to experiment, we used to love to waste time. And having the beauty of having our own studio, we didn't have a clock in there so we weren't restricted.
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Although the song was not banned by the BBC at the time of release, it was later banned for the duration of the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991.[2]
Chart performance
"Rubber Bullets" was the band's first number one single in the UK Singles Chart, spending one week at the top in June 1973.[3] It also reached No. 1 in Ireland for 2 weeks, No. 3 in Australia, No.17 in New Zealand[4] but it fared relatively poorly in the United States where it peaked at only No. 73,[5] and in Canada (their first appearance) where it reached just No. 76.[6] The single achieved sales of over 50,000 copies in Australia, being eligible for the award of a Gold Disc.[7]
In popular culture
- "Rubber Bullets" was used as the theme song to the pilot episode of American adult animated TV series Superjail! titled "Bunny Love", which aired in May 2007.[8]
- The song was featured on the soundtrack of the 1998 film A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries.[9]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."I Write The Songs". The10ccfanclub.com. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kirby, Mark (2000). Sociology in Perspective. Heinemann. p. 164. ISBN 9780435331603. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 287. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."flavour of new zealand - search listener". www.flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 833.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."RPM Top 100 Singles - November 3, 1973" (PDF).
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Go Set Chart Book, Australia's First National Charts. 6 April 2018. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-387-71246-5.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harris, Will (3 March 2010). "A Chat with Christy Karacas and Stephen Warbrick ("Superjail!")". Premium Hollywood. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries - Original Soundtrack - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
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